I'm looking for book or a guide that will direct me to 3D modelling/animation for gaming. Most tutorials will go for lengths about things I don't really need for games and I want to get to the chops of making assets for my games -- like many developers have said: the best way to get experience is finish a game!

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To be honest, I would say that there are not that many tutorials on Blender's site. Its better to go to places like blenderartists.org for blender tutorials. Blender cookie may also be a good option blendercookie.com
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SycrenJul 1 '11 at 14:06

I totally agree with the Josh Petrie's recommendation of using Blender tutorials. Blender is a great free tool and those tutorials can't be useless even if they do not focus on modeling and animation for games.

But as you asked for 3D modeling/animation for games, I recommend you to search for low polygon 3D or modeling informations, which is the type of 3D modeling often used in video games.

Here is an interesting website, where you can see a professional at work in videos (with explanations) and read some interesting text tutorials about 3D modeling for video games (partially):http://poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm